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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
John Sherman.

Is full of bitterness. lie is full of
the gall of sectionalism. He cares
nothing for the peace and or the
stability of the Republic. Like a
ruffin, a brute with a well ascertained
strength, he asserts himself with bit
terness. A self confessed liar, he
spoke in Nashville in words honeyed
over with sweetness to win the ex-
Confederate blacksmiths who have
manufactures, and in Springfield,
Ill.,, in words so bitter with the gall
of sectionalism that even the moder-
ate Republicans must protest. De-
ceit and lying and political cowar-
dice could no fnrthur go. He did
not dare to say in Nashville that Mr..
Cleveland owed his election to 'mur-
der, arson, ballot box stuffing, for
gerry and perjury" and that Sin this
way the second rebellion of the
Democratic party is a success But
he said it in Springfield. In Illinois
Senator Sherman was an honest man;
in Tennessee he was a sneak-not
a cunning but contemplate
sneak; cowardly sneak; a cowardly
sneak who, while he conceded the
bravery and rectititude of purpose
that animated the Confederate SOL
dier, held him up as a pirate and a
citizen not to be trusted. In this
Sherman proves himself to be what
we have always regarded him--a
contemplate sneak and d political
coward, who has some ability in
politics, but otherwise is beneath the
notice or attention of Republicans or
Democrats. His speech is a wide con-
trast with that which he made at
Nashville to catch Southern votes.
1t is the honest utterance of his heart.
What he said in Nashville, every
word of it, was a deliberate and pur-
posed lie. Judged by his Nashville
speech, Senator John Sherman is a
contemplate liar, unfit to engage the
attention of men; he Is sneak, a
coward who wears a mask and is all
things to all men.-Memphis APP
peal.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
Seips, In States Democrat.

Gov. Taylor in late speech said:
"We stand to-day in the midst of
new civilization born of the Drawn
and brain of changed and progress
sive people and founded upon free
education, free thought and free
labor. The scene before us to-day
represents the spirit OF that new civ
ilivation-the spirit that gives
proppesy to the grand and inevitable
destiny of the SOUTH"
The Governor is far from being
statesman if he really means what he
says. He should have said, "We
stand to-day in the midst of pseudo
civilization born of great upheaval
of society with its long train of
abuses, corruption and unwise states
manship, the logical sequent of a
sectional and fraticidal war. This
new civilization the Governor speaks
in such glowing terms of means to
educate all Of its people both black
and white and to make the negro
politically equal with the whites-to
have no caste distinction but pave
the way to equality by having the
whites and blacks to sit together at
the hotels, cars and churches and
perhaps go a step further and repeat
a similar state of society that stigma
tizes the empire of Brazil. Mr..
Editor, l say Good Lord deliver Us
from such new civilization and as for
Gov. Taylor he can have 1t all, but
we prefer the old civilization and the
days of brave men and true patriot
ism when truth and principle was
not made subordinate to gain.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
JOHN SEWER.
A Tcnnessean WHO Deserves to be Bet
ter Known.

The first notable Tennessean was
john Sewer, of whom James X. Gill
more edmund Kirle) has just fur
nished a biography, gathered to
a great extent from the oldest settlers
living in Tennessee. Sewer was a
Virginian of good family and educa-
tion who was famous as an Indian
fighter before ne reached his majority.
In 1872 he visited Gen. Shelby's farm
on the southwestern borders of Vir-
ginia, where Bristol now stands.
He decided to turn pioneer himself
and to press further into the wilder
ness than Shelby had done. The
author says: 81 have conVersed
with a number of aged men who
knew Sewer we'll in their boyhood,
and they all agree in describing him
as possessed Of personal magnetism
that was nothing less than wonder
full. 1t was potent with both his
| friends and his enemies. He fought
the Cherokees for more than twenty
years, but they never came within
the sphere of his presence without
casting aside their grievances and
grasping his hand as their brother"
1t was Sewer who led 95J men 25C
miles to crush the right wing OF
CORVALLIS at Kings Mountain.
The Tennessee country belonged to
North Carolina, but after the revolu-
tiOn the mother state could do moth.
ing for the pioneers, and bade them
look to the general government, to
which she offered to cede the terri.
tory. There were thirty thousand
pioneers in Tennessee in 1884; and
being thus left without protection
they organized the state of Franklin
A legislature was chosen and Sewer
elected governor. Franklin com
prised the whole of what is now
Tennessee except the country arount
Nashville, where Robertson held the
savages at bay. Knoxville was mo-
in existence, Greenville was little
more than q log courthouse ant
tavern, and Jonesboro was hamlet
of fifty or sixty cabins. The pioneers
were generally scattered in farm
houses in the forests, with occasional
block houses. Sewers courier sys
tenn was almost equal to the tele
graph. On one occasion Of danger HI
assembled two thousand men at hi,
rendezvous inside of twenty-foul
hours. The state of Franklin lasteC
but three years. North Carolina re
asserted its authority, taking pain
to placate the settlers. Sewer, lik'
Aaron Burr, might have intrigued
for an alliance with the Spaniards il
the Southwest, but he was not tina
kind of a man. The Franklinites
however were disposed to be obsti
nate, and for q time the Tennessee,
country had a double government
Sewer would not council war with
North Carolina, though the state de
clared him an outlaw. He was cap
tured and tried by the North Caro-
lima legislature, which remembered
his service and restored him to citi
zenship.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02

An Atchison, Kas., colored mail
carrier, A. l.. Robb, says in the fol-
lowing account: / have been In the
U. s. P. o. employ as a mail-carrier
for several years past. My attention
was called to The Louisiana State
Lottery, and made up my mind that
l would buy a ticket. For seven
consecutive months / invested one
dollar a month as regularly as the
month came, and up to April / drew
a blank. l concluded to go one dol
lar more, and was going to quit. l
sent my dollar as before to NJ. A.
Dauphih, New Orleans, La, and re-
ceived ticket No 23,S99, and found
that / had drawn a prize of $1,000
and deposited It In the Exchange
NationaI Bank of this city.-Atchison
(Kas.) Champion, May 8.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
BILL NYE ON NATURE.
The "Crested" AristocratA Modern
Peri-Central Park Etiquette.

Central Park Just now is looking its
very best, and opens up with the pro-
spects of doing a good business this
season. A ride through the park just
now is delightful to one who loves to
commune with nature, especially
with human natures. The nobility
of New York now turns out to get
the glorious air and ventliate its
crest. / saw several hundred crests
and coats of arms the other day in an
hours time, and it was rather q poor
day, too, for a gieat many of our best
people are Just changing from their
spring to their light summer coat OF
arms.
One Of the best crests / saw was a
nice, large, red crest, about the size
of an adult rhubarb pie, with a two
year-old Durham unicorn above it,
bearing in his talons the unique
maxim, "Sans culottes sans snocke-
monthegob, sans cry sipelas est.
And how true this is, too, in a
great many cases.
Another very handsome crest on
the carriage of the Van Studentickels
consisted of a towel rack penchant,
with cockroach regardant, holding in
his beak a large red tape worm on
which was inscribed: "Spirituous
frumenti, cum homo tomorrow"
Some day ! am going to get my
self crest. l am only waiting for
something to put it on. 1t will con-
sist of monkey with his eye knocked
out and bright green parrot with
his tail pulled off, and over this the
simple remark: "We have had q
high old time" or words to that
effect.
Not so many equestrians were out
as usual on the day / visited the
park, but those who were out
afforded the observer beautiful
view of the park between their per.
sons and the saddle. The equestrienes
were more numerous, and one OF
two especially were as beautiful as
anything that nature ever turned
out. One young woman, in neat.
fitting plug hat, looked to me like q
peri. 1t has been a good while now
since saw peri, but l have always
heard them very highly spoken Of
and / hope she will not be offended
when she reads these lines and finds
that / regard her in that light.
A custom of taking the butler
along in the seat with the coachmar
Is growing in favor for two reasons
first, it shows that you have butler
and, second, you know that while ht
is out with you he is not putting
paste in the place of your diamonds
at home. So l had almost said thar
1t paste to do this.
The automatic or jointless footmar
is still popular, and young mar
who has good turning lathe lel
and an air Of fimpenetrable gloom car
get job most any time.
There ought to be a book Of parl
etiquette printed soon, however, fo
the guidance of its patrons. In tn,
first place 1t should be consider outr,
for gentleman to hire a coupe BY
the hour In order to recover from
alcoholic prostration, and then sleeI
up and down the drive with his fee
out Of the window. tits not respectful
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
The Shame Of . Great Merchant

was that skin disease made him
look like drinking man. DR.. Pierce's
"Golden Medical Discovery" is a GER
tain cure for all diseases Of TIE blood
and skin. 1t should be tried by all
afflicted with tctter, salt-rheuna, scsald
head, st. Anthony's fire, erysipelas,
ring-worms, pimples, blotches, spots.
eruptions, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes,
rough skin, scr0fulous sores, SWELL
ings, blood taints, effecting the skin,
throat and bones, ulcers of the liver,
stomach, kidneys, lungs and uterus.
Purify the blood and health Will re-
turn. By druggists.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02
THE BIOLOGISTS FATE.

Mid the whlrl OF the mighty city,
And its rushing, restless stream
OF huTying, Fastening, striving ones
Who fit by like dream.
The placid, night-worn scholar,
Pale with the thoughts that run
Through minds that work while Others
sleep,
And sleep when the night is done,
Woke from his musty musings
To find that he had heart,
That science, to whom he gave his all,
But gave him back part.
What reused him from his slumber?
What stirred his sluggish heart?
He had just found out that of the world
She--She was the better part.
And SO he went and married her;
And she, too, married him;
He's not professor Feldspar" now,
He's only "Here you, Jiml'
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02

"My ownest and dearest darling
angel on earth! My heart and brain
and soul are yours forever and for
ever" These are words read in court
In Illinois from love letter written
by man before marriage to the girl
he afterwards welded, and who Il
now suing him for divorce on the
ground Of his cruelty and brutality.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02

Phila. Times: Gen. Tuttle, OF
Iowa, appears TO have made the COM
mon error of little men: In mo-
ment of self conceit he opened his
mouth and tumbled in. The hole is
still there.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-02

Insurance entrusted shall receive careful and prompt
share business respectfully solicited JNo. W. FAXON CO.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

first order on the subject simply clears
the ground for the complete action on
which have determined under the
laws granting these lands. Corpora
tionS are, and have been entitled for
years, to select lands in indemnity to
make good any losses in their granted
limits, but / hold that while corpora
tions had and have this right the people
had and have at the same time the
same right to settle on these lands I'M
der the land laws, and it is just and
necessary that this equal right
of the people in these lands should be
asserted, hence, L shall revoke every
indemnity withdrawal and open all
indemnity lands to settlement at once.
Within the granted limits the land
grant corporations have certain rights
to the exclusion of the people. That is
by act of Congress. Within the iudem-
nifty limits corporations have their
rights of selection only in common
with the people.
''How do you get on with the execu-
tion of the Indian Seyeralty law?"
1.-The numerous leases of Indian
lands by cattleman,I shall sweep away.
If they were allowed to subSist, the
Indians who have made leases of this
kind, for which there is no authority of
law, would be induced to resist the
law of Congress commanding their
settlement in severalty. shall there
fore give proper notice presently, that
cattle must be removed and leases
annulled. We may use troops if neces-
Sary to drive off and keep off cattle
just as have found it necessary lately
to employ troops to tear down fences
around public lands. The law of Con-
greSS must be carried OUT
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

bic. Periodical depressions necessita-
ting ranchmen TO sell immature stock
at ruinous prices has been disastrous
at times, and this consolidation will,
in q great measure if not entirely, re-
lieve this fear of the disastrous conse-
quences of the Swan failure and COM
PEELED eattlemen to take imme-
date action and delegates
were. sent to New York
London and Edinburg to impose upon
capitalists of these cities who have
agreed to go into the enterprise, the
necessity of immediate action which
they have done with eommendable
activity. There are connected with the
enterprise, Sturgis, Lane, Carrie, Davis,
life and Clarke of Cheyenne, and
Ulrich and Hayemeyer of New York,
together with number of Scotch and
English capitalists and some from Bos-
ton and Philadelphia.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

some of them centuries, in building
the period which elapsed between
foundation, turret or spire, of many of
the grandeSt structures that now lift
their sculptured front to human ad-
miration, is measured, not by decades
but by ages. Mushrooms grow to be
all they ever are in night, but not so
with cities. 1t takes time to build a
metropolis. Time Is as import
ant an element in the progress of a
boom as in everything else which in
wolves plan, method ana the working out
of details. Our boom has been in pro-
gress not quite ninety days. 1t struck
the town very near zero and has lifted
it fifty degrees. Because the mercury
has yet not assembled to the boiling
point, few of our citizens imagine
that it is not rising. Because build
ings which first have to be planned
by an architect and then erect
ed, both requiring considerable time;
because other improvements which
take time to set in motion, have not
yet materialiZed; because the streets
and real estate offices are not crowded
with crazy spectators buying property
at fabulous prices, wild with excite
ment and beside themselves with en-
thusiasm; because the town is not top
Sy turvey with speculative commotion,
and does not present a scene similar to
that witnessed daily in the stock ex-
changes of the large commercial centers
of the country; because of all this some
near-sighted people look dubious and
ask SIS not the boom declining?"
1t is never wise to be impatient of re-
suits which, although not apparent on
the surface, are yet being wrought out
as steadily and as rapidly as can be, all
things considered.
Our boom is on, and on to stay, and
the most substantial and important
part of 1.-THE preparations for the
most extensive private and public i'm
provementS Atchison has ever known
are going forward every dav. The
plans for over S600,0O0 of building,
grading and paving work, not including
the cost of the Yiaduct and Rapid
Transit railway, are being put in shape
and will be ready for the contractors to
begin on in two weeks at the farthest Z
And when these and other contem-
plated enterprises are under way, as
they will all be inside of thirty days, as
sure as the sun rises and sets, then will
it be seen that the few who now stand
round and croak and talk discourag-
'ingly of the boom are not the most far
seeing people in the world.
Don't be impatient; make allowances
for the necessary interval of time in
the working out of details, and be not
faithlesS but believing. Everything is
going forward as fast as it should to be
healthy and substantial. Remember
the order of nature, first the seed time,
then the harvest, and do not expect q
town to be built up on any other plan.
Wait and see, and your waiting will be
amply rewarded by results such as
would not have been dreamed possible
in this city ninety days ago.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26
READING NEWS.

MAY 24.-The rains Sunday night
lasted five hours and some three inches
of water fell. The crops are doing fine
but stock water is only had as yet by
wells and good pump
The sheriff of Lyon county found it
difficult to attach stock and get it pas
tured to his mind, so he just left with
out accomplishing his mission the other
day.
John Jacoby, "a young man) son of
Henry Jacoby, harnesSed up his colt
the other day to break it to the buggy,
and after he and Dan Simkins had rode
around for a spell the colt began to
kick, compelling them to get out of the
buggy, and in doing it John was caught
in the wheel in such a way as to break
his ankle bones. DR.. Morrison, assist
ed by DIR. Cranston, set it, and he is
resting as well as could be expected
with so shattered limb.
Mrs. w. II. Douglass is on the sick
list, but not consider dangerous.
Look out for mad dogs, as they are
plenty out about Arvonia. Owen and
Dick Griffith have lost six head of cat
tie that were bitten by mad dogs, and
Tom Jones came near losing his life by
one of the steers that was out on the
prairie in the herd of said Griffith's cat
tie. The steer was furious and had
run into a section line road, where
Jones met it the second time. He left
the horse and jumped the fence to get
out of the wayiOf the steer. The horse
was badly gored. The steer was final
| ly shot. 1t is hoped no more cattle are
| affected, but still there may be more.
The Reading tile factory is again iii
operation. They turn out the very best
tile for sewer and under drainage.
John Steckley left for California
Monday. His health is poor.
The roof of the stone building down
at the river burned off a few days ago.
1t is the A. T. s. 5. F. engine and boiler
house where the pumps are that throw
such an immense amount of water
through O,O00 feet of four inch-pipe to
| the water tank here at the depot.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

CHICAGO, May 25.-The trial of Jacob
Greenburg, member of the Brother
hood of Carpenters who is accused of
being in the employ of detective
agency, commenced at meeting of the
Carpenters union last night. Louis
Ling, the condemned anarchist, was
the organizer in the Carpenters union
and there was evidence produced
during the trial to show that he had
received money from the union for the
purpose of experimenting with dyna-
mite. The charge has been preferred
against Greenburg OF having tried to
involve Branch No. PAL in some similar
transaction, and he was charged with
having composed and causing to be
published an alleged anarchists mini
festO that appeared a few days ago.
Another accusation against Greenburg
is to the effect that he is the man who
induced Koedel to attempt the life of
Emperor William in 1878. Sensational
developments are expected.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26
Derby Races.

LONDON, May 25.-Vast crowds left
London to-day for EPSON Downs to
witness the great race for the Derby
stakes. Four-in-hands were seen in
great numbers. Ten of these turnouts
left the Metropole alone, while scores
of others departed from various CEN
tiers. American visitors at EPSON
were especially numerous. Mr.. PEN
field, late vice consu! general of the
United States at London. drove a
coach laden with Americans. The
Prince of Wales, Lord Rosen-
berry. the Crown Prince of Den
mark, and many other persons of
distinction were present. The course
was slightly heavy. Baron the favor
lite in betting was exercised this morn
ing and appeared in grand form. The
stables are backing Aintres and Merry
Hampton. Merry Hampton won the
Derby, Baron wassecond and Marley
third.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26

A HIGHER COURT.
VaRderburg, Accused Of OutrsgiDg a
Young Girl,
Is Shot Dead in Court at the Prelim-
mary Examination.
No One Knows Who Fired the Fatal
Bullet.
But the Brothers Of His Victim Put
Under Arrest.
A HIGHER COURT
K.I1ed in the Court Room.


ST.. LOUIS, May Pa special from
Rockville, Missouri, says: Last Tues
day man called at the Anderson res
idence and asked for glass of water
and Jennie, a popular and accomplished
daughter Of one of the leading citizens
of Bates county, waited upon him.
When she came near him he suddenly
seized and chlOrof0rmed her, and while
under this influence she was outraged.
A search resulted in the arrest of John
Vanderburgh and a lynching was pre-
vented only by doubt of the priS-
oner's guilt. Jennie Anderson con-
fronted the prisoner and claimed to
recognize him. AT the preliminary
hearing yesterday Jennie told the hor-
rible details of the crime and the pris-
Oner made poor attempt to prove an
alibi. The judge had just announced
that the prisoner would be held in
3d. 900 bail, when shot rang out, fol-
lowed in rapid succession by two more.
There was a scamper for the street and
when quiet was restored the prisoner
was found dead. No one knows who
fired the shots, but as the two Ander-
son boys were in the court room, they
were put under arrest.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-26
A Fatal Collision.

NEW YORK, May 23.-It was officially
stated at the Office of the White Star
line this morning that SO far as known
but four steerage passengers killed in
the collision between the Celtic and
Brittanic were buried at sea. OF this
number Jane Robinson, thirteen years
old, Of Fall River, Massachusetts,, and
James Timberry of Jersey City, were
know to have been killed outright. Two
passengers, James Greenale and Adam
johnson, addresses unknown, are miss
ing and are supposed to belong to the
four who were buried at sea. Some of
the passengers insist that in addition
to this number a fleshy woman with
black hair was also killed and given sea
burial. The official list includes ten
injured. The first load of steerage
passengers from the Celtic was landed
at Castle Garden this morning, 800 in
all. The steerage list Of the Celtic in
cludeS 765 passengers.
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ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

our church, uconfession of faith,
and longer and shorter catechism, does
not in our minds, form sufficient bases
of union, but the acceptance of that
peculiar Interpretation Of our stand
ards, which affirms and emphasizes the
purely scriptural nature of Christ's
Kingdom and forbids her legislating
upon political or civil matters is the
only true basis of union, and further
we insist that the colored brethren
within our bounds shall be organized
into separate congregations, Presby-
teries and synods. DIR. Smoot read the
minority report, and Rev. w. H.
Parks presented his minimum minority
which differed from the majority, re-
port chiefly in forms of expression.
The whole matter was then postponed
until tomorrow, when it will come up
as a special order Of the day.